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The Fiona and Rick True Charitable Trust (Fka the Tony McLellan Charitable Trust)

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$366k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2024
20
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$150,000
States reached, FY2024
10
Total assets, FY2024
$5.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Health$326kEducation$178kEnvironment$75kCivil Rights$50kInternational$25kArts & Culture$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kCrime & Legal$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
IL
NY
MA
WY
NJ
CT
RI
MO
VA
AZ
NC
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($175k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Fiona and Rick True Charitable Trust (Fka the Tony McLellan Charitable Trust) supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Negro College Fund Inc: $150,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAckerman Institute for the Family: $150,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetAfrican Community and Conservation Foundation Inc: $73,653 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCenter for Medicare Advocacy Inc: $39,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPencil Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuilford College: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhysicians for Human Rights Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPublic Citizen Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetElevated Access Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSilk Road Project Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommittee to Protect Journalists Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCircle of Hope Health Care Svcs Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for Justice: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJacques Pepin Foundation The: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Center for Reproductive Rights Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWesterlies Music Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCenter for Biological Diversity Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChoate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA11.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Fiona and Rick True Charitable Trust (Fka the Tony McLellan Charitable Trust)

How much does The Fiona and Rick True Charitable Trust (Fka the Tony McLellan Charitable Trust) give?
The Fiona and Rick True Charitable Trust (Fka the Tony McLellan Charitable Trust) reported 18 grants totaling $365,653 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does The Fiona and Rick True Charitable Trust (Fka the Tony McLellan Charitable Trust) fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (46%), Education (25%), Environment (11%).
Who are The Fiona and Rick True Charitable Trust (Fka the Tony McLellan Charitable Trust)'s largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: United Negro College Fund Inc ($150k), Ackerman Institute for the Family ($150k), African Community and Conservation Foundation Inc ($74k).
Does The Fiona and Rick True Charitable Trust (Fka the Tony McLellan Charitable Trust) accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Fiona and Rick True Charitable Trust (Fka the Tony McLellan Charitable Trust)?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is The Fiona and Rick True Charitable Trust (Fka the Tony McLellan Charitable Trust) based?
The Fiona and Rick True Charitable Trust (Fka the Tony McLellan Charitable Trust) is based in CT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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